Word · Frequency #2001
passengers
乘客
passengers is the plural of passenger.
A person who travels in a vehicle but is not the driver or a crew member.
- 1.
One who rides or travels in a vehicle, but who does not operate it and is not a member of the crew.
乘坐车辆但不操作车辆且非机组人员的人
- 2.
a traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it
乘坐交通工具但不操作的旅客
- 3.
A young hunting bird that can fly and is taken while it is still in its first year.
第一年能飞的幼猎鹰
- 4.
A moth, Dysgonia algira
一种蛾子(Dysgonia algira)
- 5.
Any of the individual warheads of a MIRV missile.
分导式多弹头导弹的单个弹头
当年鹰；客夜蛾；子弹头；乘坐车辆但不操作车辆且非机组人员的人；乘坐交通工具但不操作的旅客
In use
The passenger asked the flight attendant for a glass of water.
All passengers must fasten their seatbelts during takeoff.
A passenger left his bag on the train.
passenger on [transport]
表示乘坐某种交通工具的乘客。
She was a passenger on the train.
她是火车上的一名乘客。
passenger [noun]
passenger 作定语，修饰名词。
Please fasten your passenger seat belt.
请系好您的乘客安全带。
[verb] passenger(s)
This bus can carry 50 passengers.
这辆公共汽车可搭载50名乘客。
Connections
Collocations
- passenger seat
- 乘客座位
- Please fasten your seatbelt in the passenger seat.请在乘客座位上系好安全带。
- passenger train
- 客运列车
- The passenger train arrives at platform 3.客运列车到达3号站台。
- passenger plane
- 客机
- The passenger plane took off on time.客机准时起飞了。
- passenger list
- 乘客名单
- The captain checked the passenger list before departure.机长在起飞前核对了乘客名单。
- passenger service
- 客运服务
- The airline offers excellent passenger service.这家航空公司提供优质的客运服务。
- passenger traffic
Learner notes
Memory Tip
将'passenger'拆分为'pass'（通过）和'enger'（音似‘嗯着’），想象乘客通过检票口时哼着歌。
Context & Register
常见场景：aviation、railway、maritime、public transport ‘passenger’ 是中性词，通常用于各种交通工具的语境，如飞机、火车、轮船、公共汽车等。
Grammar Note
可数名词，复数形式为passengers
Pronunciation & Spelling
Words ending in '-enger' (messenger, scavenger, avenger) share a similar ending sound with 'passenger', but the stressed vowel may differ slightly. 'Stranger' ('-anger') has a different stressed vowel (/eɪ/ vs /æ/). No perfect rhymes exist for 'passenger'.
High-value vocabulary
该词属于 Oxford 核心词汇，值得优先掌握常见搭配和句型。
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 3，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
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